The Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services will officially remove national coverage decisions for 7 procedures under a program initiated in November 2013, including stereotactic cingulotomy, tinnitus masking and more.
The Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services are removing national coverage decisions for 7 medical procedures, including certain types of lobotomies and tinnitus masking devices, after a year-long review initiated in November 2013.
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This Viewpoint discusses the history of the Tinnitus Retraining Therapy Trial and the challenges encountered in conducting a phase 3 randomized clinical trial involving all major branches of the military.

This randomized clinical trial compares the efficacy of tinnitus retraining therapy and its components, sound therapy and tinnitus-specific educational counseling, with the standard of care on tinnitus-related quality of life.

Against poor odds, Formby and colleagues managed to receive federal grant funding for a multisite clinical trial, to access and convince military investigators to join in this trial, to select rigorous measures and methods when no objective tinnitus measurement exists, and to gain approvals from all levels of regulatory and local command authority oversight bodies across 6 military treatment facilities before they could start their effort to complete the Tinnitus Retraining Therapy Trial (TRTT), described by Scherer and Formby in this issue ofJAMA Otolaryngology –Head&Neck Surgery. In just shy of 20 years from th...

ConclusionVertigo due to IT decreases within minutes. When the IT drugs are administered at body temperature, temporal vertigo due to injection is lower than when they are administered at room temperature.

Tinnitus is a perceived sound in a person ’s ears that only they can hear, without an identifiable external source. The noise can be intermittent or continuous. Tinnitus is common and occurs in 10% of people.

Authors: Rivera M, Porras-Segovia A, Rovira P, Molina E, Gutiérrez B, Cervilla J
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Life expectancy of people with depression is on average 15 years less than that of the general population. This excess of mortality is largely attributed to a deteriorated physical health. Evidence about the association between major depressive disorder (MDD) and physical health is still lacking in some areas. The aim of this study was to explore the association between MDD and physical health-related variables in southern Spain.
METHODS: The PISMA-ep is a cross-sectional study based on community-dwellin...

In this study we hypothesized that the alleviation of neurological symptoms long after internal carotid artery (ICA) stenting may be related to sustained improvement of cerebral perfusion. Thirty-four subjects (F/M; 15/19) with>70% stenosis of a single internal carotid artery and neurological symptoms, who underwent a carotid artery stenting procedure, were studied. Brain computed tomography perfusion (CTP) imaging was performed before and 3 years after ICA stenting. The following relative variables were compared: cerebral blood flow (rCBF), cerebral blood volume (rCBV), mean transit time (rMTT), time to peak (rTTP...